Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 36 96
Rank change year-on-year +12 +60 +24
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 172 107 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.16% 5.67% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.21% 6.03% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 83 24
10th Percentile £400 £415 £374
25th Percentile £481 £464 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.05% -19.58%
75th Percentile £669 £696 £650
90th Percentile £772 £785 £723
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £523
% change year-on-year -4.35% +10.05% -19.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £66.71 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,094 1,774 1,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.21% 94.01% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,158 1,280
10th Percentile £368 £331 £375
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 2 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.49%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.49%) Confluence
3 5 (2.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.16%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.58%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.58%) Maximo
4 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.58%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (0.58%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.58%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.00%) Azure
2 30 (17.44%) Power Platform
3 20 (11.63%) AWS
4 10 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.81%) GCP
5 9 (5.23%) SaaS
6 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (3.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.91%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.33%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.33%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.33%) Serverless
9 4 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) Network Security
2 2 (1.16%) DNS
2 2 (1.16%) LAN
2 2 (1.16%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.16%) VPN
2 2 (1.16%) WAN
2 2 (1.16%) Wireless
3 1 (0.58%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) Internet
3 1 (0.58%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.58%) PSTN
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) VLAN
3 1 (0.58%) VoIP
3 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.53%) Power BI
2 11 (6.40%) Metadata
3 7 (4.07%) Data Lake
3 7 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.74%) Power Query
4 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.74%) Tableau
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.16%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.16%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.16%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.58%) DataStage
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (8.72%) JIRA
2 4 (2.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.16%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.58%) Git
4 1 (0.58%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) JUnit
4 1 (0.58%) Mockito
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 77 (44.77%) Social Skills
2 63 (36.63%) Finance
3 39 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (18.02%) Public Sector
5 20 (11.63%) Banking
6 10 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Retail
8 5 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.91%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.91%) Marketing
8 5 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.33%) Police
10 3 (1.74%) Front Office
10 3 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.16%) Legal
11 2 (1.16%) Local Government
11 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (17.44%) Analyst
2 29 (16.86%) Architect
3 20 (11.63%) Lead
3 20 (11.63%) Senior
4 17 (9.88%) Business Analyst
5 14 (8.14%) Data Architect
6 13 (7.56%) Project Manager
7 11 (6.40%) Consultant
8 10 (5.81%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.23%) Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Security Architect
11 6 (3.49%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.91%) Change Manager
12 5 (2.91%) Security Manager
12 5 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Strategy Architect
12 5 (2.91%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.65%) PySpark
2 3 (1.74%) Middleware
2 3 (1.74%) REST
2 3 (1.74%) XML
3 2 (1.16%) .NET
3 2 (1.16%) FastAPI
3 2 (1.16%) Flask
3 2 (1.16%) JSON
3 2 (1.16%) Playwright
3 2 (1.16%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.16%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.16%) Spring
3 2 (1.16%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.16%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.58%) Django
4 1 (0.58%) EDI
4 1 (0.58%) Next.js
4 1 (0.58%) SOAP
4 1 (0.58%) Spring MVC
4 1 (0.58%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.81%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.81%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.91%) AI Agents
3 5 (2.91%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.74%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.16%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.16%) FMCG
6 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.58%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.74%) Linux
1 3 (1.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (26.16%) Agile
3 36 (20.93%) Analytics
4 34 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (19.19%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (18.60%) AI
7 31 (18.02%) Decision-Making
8 27 (15.70%) Data Modelling
9 26 (15.12%) Data Governance
9 26 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (14.53%) Migration
11 24 (13.95%) Roadmaps
12 21 (12.21%) DevOps
13 20 (11.63%) CI/CD
14 18 (10.47%) Validation
15 17 (9.88%) Change Management
15 17 (9.88%) Requirements Gathering
16 16 (9.30%) Data Architecture
16 16 (9.30%) Project Management
17 14 (8.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.70%) SQL
2 21 (12.21%) Python
3 6 (3.49%) Bicep
3 6 (3.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.74%) C#
4 3 (1.74%) Java
5 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.58%) Scala
6 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.23%) Degree
4 5 (2.91%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.91%) PMP
5 3 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.74%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.16%) CEH
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.16%) CISSP
6 2 (1.16%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.16%) OSCP
6 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.58%) GPEN
7 1 (0.58%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.86%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.56%) QA
3 9 (5.23%) GDPR
3 9 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.23%) NIST
3 9 (5.23%) PMO
4 5 (2.91%) NCSC
5 4 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.74%) SLA
7 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.16%) GRC
7 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (1.16%) PERC
8 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.58%) COBIT
8 1 (0.58%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.58%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.58%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (2.91%) Docker
2 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.07%) Terraform
3 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.16%) Istio
5 1 (0.58%) Grafana
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.56%) Databricks
2 13 (7.56%) SAP
3 6 (3.49%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.33%) Google
4 4 (2.33%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.74%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle
5 3 (1.74%) Remedy
6 2 (1.16%) BMC
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco
6 2 (1.16%) Informatica
6 2 (1.16%) Workday
7 1 (0.58%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.58%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.58%) IBM
7 1 (0.58%) Lotus
7 1 (0.58%) Planon
7 1 (0.58%) Qualtrics